religion

"I haven't had a sip of alcohol since 1986."

"Unmovable disinterest brings man into likeness of God. ... To be full of things is to be empty of God; to be empty of things is to be full of God."

"During our youth, there is something in us that is better than ourselves, I mean better than our desires, our pleasures, our yieldings, and our inclinations. Our soul is good then, even though our int…"

"It is no small honour that God for our sake has so magnificently adorned the world, in order that we may not only be spectators of this beauteous theatre, but also enjoy the multiplied abundance and v…"

"The Vedanta is not a religion, but religion itself in its most universal and deepest significance."

"The Christian should work as if all depended on him, and pray as if it all depended on God."

"Thomas Paine's Writings on God, Deism and Religion"

"It wasn't the Christian Church that arrested Gallileo, it was the Roman Catholic Church, which is a non-Christian religion based on tradition and not the Bible."

"I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was… nothingness."

"Whosoever refrains his soul from lust, verily Paradise shall be his abode."

"If there is any certainty as to what a businessman is, he is assuredly the things Ford was not."

"A millennial belief in a Holy God may have the effect of deepening the soul, but it is also obviously archaic, and modern influences would presently bring me up to date and reveal how antiquated my or…"

"Minister doth not always import an inferior to him to whom he doth minister: for the Psalm saith, God hath made man paulo inferiorem Angelis; and yet in the first chapter to the Hebrews it is said, th…"

"The staircase that leads to God. What does it matter if it is make-believe, if we really climb it? What difference does it make who builds it, or if it is made of marble or word, of brick, stone, or m…"

"Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls."

"This Shewing was quick and life-like, and horrifying and dreadful, sweet and lovely. And of all the sight it was most comfort to me that our God and Lord that is so reverend and dreadful, is so homely…"

"A Druze soldier who stood guard to protect Israel against vengeful enemies, and was killed by Ishmaelites - it is proper to say a 'hashkava' in synagogue for the benefit of his soul... The Druze belie…"

"The Hindu, sickened by idolatry , turns to the other two religions which surround him, and inquires into their respective claims ... we must be ready at hand to meet him with the proofs of our most ho…"

"The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self-dependence must give each individual the right, to choose his own surroundings."

"Christ found the religions of the world oppressed almost to suffocation by the load of formulas piled upon them by the priesthood. He removed the load, and rendered respiration free. He cared little f…"